Suicide bomber targets foreign forces amid U.S. apology
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Suicide bomber targets foreign forces amid U.S. apology
A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign troops during the Sunday morning rush hour in the Afghan capital, flipping an armored vehicle on its side and wounding at least three civilians. Taliban insurgents fighting to topple the foreign-backed Kabul government claimed responsibility for the attack. The Taliban said Sunday’s attack killed a number of foreign troops. The group typically inflates casualty figures they inflict on Afghan and coalition forces.
It was a suicide bombing against a foreign forces convoy in a crowded part of the city and there are casualties.
Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry
The attack came during a period of heightened tension following intense fighting between government troops and the Taliban around the northern city of Kunduz, which fell briefly to the Islamist movement at the end of last month. The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make payments in compensation for those killed and injured by U.S. airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The strike came just days after the Taliban overran the city, with many residents wounded after pitched street battles.
